Dr Katarzyna Więckowska, prof. Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń won a Corbridge Trust scholarship to conduct research at the University of Cambridge. The laureate’s stay at Robinson College will contribute to the implementation of a project devoted to the impact of climate change on contemporary English-language prose.

The project aims to explore the vision of the future in 21st century novels by British authors – Jeanette Winterson, David Mitchell, Naomi Alderman, Liz Jensen, Maggie Gee and John Lanchester – from the perspective of posthuman research, new materialism and the ethics of care.

The Corbridge Fund was established in 1988 to celebrate the charities of Clifford and Mary Corbridge. Clifford Corbridge was a British engineer working in Poland before the war. His wife, Mary Corbridge, or rather Maria Patkaniowska, was a respected researcher of the English language. The purpose of the Fund is to sponsor scientific exchanges between Polish and British universities.

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